More un-American Acts

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:24:50 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Claire Wolfe visited a pharmacy in a free country. She could buy whatever she wanted, just by asking. Imagine that! [tmm]

Testing the system, I went into two pharmacies and showed a card on which I had written (courtesy of FreeTranslation.com) a request for a certain other pharmaceutical. I gave its generic name and all the brand names I could find online. In both cases, women behind the counter identified the drug by its generic name and offered me all of it that I wanted to buy.

It's just a harmless muscle relaxant, mild, with few side effects. But it's one that the U.S., in the iron-fisted wisdom of its bureaucrats, has also placed behind that "make an appointment and pay $80 or $100 first" gate.

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